Environmental pollution and destruction as well as the lack of sufficient clean and natural
energy resources are some of the most serious problems presently faced on a global scale. …

… Itoh, and M. Matsuoka, unpublished data). The OsKO2 sequence in d35 had a single
nucleotide substitution in exon 5, which induced an amino acid change (Fig. 6); therefore, we …

It has been 30 years since a 'new' leukaemia termed adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) was
described in Japan, and more than 25 years since the isolation of the retrovirus, human T-cell …

The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) mission is the first astronomical payload to be
installed on the Japanese Experiment Module — Exposed Facility (JEM-EF or Kibo-EF) on the …

… Assuming that K d values are similar to IC 50 , we estimate K d values for GA 3 and GA 4 to
be about 4 × 10 -6 M and 2 × 10 -7 M, respectively. The estimated K d value for GA 3 seems …

Most agriculturally important traits are regulated by genes known as quantitative trait loci (QTLs)
derived from natural allelic variations. We here show that a QTL that increases grain …

Observations of X-ray spectra for four low-mass binary X-ray sources, Sco X-1, 4U 1608-522,
GX5-1 and GX349+ 2 were performed with the gas scintillation proportional counters on …

ACTIVE galactic nuclei and quasars are probably powered by the accretion of gas onto a
supermassive black hole at the centre of the host galaxy 1 , but direct confirmation of the …

The chronic food shortage that was feared after the rapid expansion of the world population
in the 1960s was averted largely by the development of a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety of …

High-sensitivity wide-band X-ray spectroscopy is the key feature of the Suzaku X-ray observatory,
launched on 2005 July 10. This paper summarizes the spacecraft, in-orbit performance…